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  • Christopher Henry Gage enlists. Christopher is commemorated on the Centenary of WWI in Orange Honour Roll; he would be killed in action in Belgium on 26 September 1917.
  • Holland reaffirms her neutrality after a secret sitting of the Second Chamber in The Hague
  • Germany begins laying mines in the Baltic Sea between Dago Island and the Stockholm skerries in an attempt to prevent the entry of Russian warships
  • German forces capture the village of Haucourt in the battle of Verdun as French troops progress north of Bois de Caillette
  • British forces launch an attack at Lol Kissale in German East Africa
  • General Aleksei Brusilov succeeds General Nikolay Ludovich Ivanov as commander of Russian armies on the southern front
General Aleksei Brusilov, 1917. Image courtesy US Library of Congress.

General Aleksei Brusilov, 1917.
Image courtesy US Library of Congress.